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ublished by the a t h o 1 i c Lay men’s Association of Georgia VOL. XIX No. 8. Ikfitt “To Bring About a Friendlier Feeling Among Neighbors Irre spective of Creed” AUGUSTA, 'GEORGIA, AUGUST 27, 1938 ISSUED MONTHLY—$2.00 A YEAR Atlanta to Have Sisters' Cancer Hospital Bulletins D. F. KELLY, president of the Cath olic Charities, Knight of St. Gregory, Kuight of Malta and until his recent retirement general manager of The Fair, one of Chicago's largest depart ment stores, died late in July in Nor-, way while on a world tour. WASHINGTON will be host Sep tember 2-4 to the twenty-third inter national conference of the Federation of College Catholic Clubs. The con vention opening Mass will be at the Church of St. Paul the Apostle and the convention sessions at the Wardman Park Hotel. THIRTY-FOUR BISHOPS have expressed their intention of attending the Fourth National Catechetical Con gress of the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine in Hartford, October 1 to 4. RICHMOND will be Catholic Chari ties headquarters in the United States October 9-12 with the National Con ference of Catholic Charities holding its twenty-fourth meeting there. THE LEGION OF DECENCY will fight irreligious as well as salacious films with every resource at its com mand, Archbishop Jolm T. McNicho- las, O. P., Archbishop of Cincinnati, chairman of the Bishops’ Committee on Motion. Pictures, declared, in a statement following the appearance of anti-religious propaganda on the screen. REV. Dr. EDW. V. STANFORD, president of Villanova University, is the current speaker over the Catholic Hour, broadcast each Sunday evening at five o’clock, Eastern Standard Time, by the National Broadcasting Com pany under the auspices of the Na tional Council of Catholic Men. DR. EVERETT R. CLINCHY, secre tary of the National Council of Jews and Christians, and a Protestant min ister, commends the plea of Bishop Noll of Fort Wayne for a United Chris tian Front, and pledges his coopera tion “for the perpetuation of relig ious and American democracy, and for the abjuration of communist, fascist, atheist and racialist philosophies.” BANCEL LA FARGE, noted Cath olic artist, son of the famed artist, John La Farge, and brother of Father John La Farge, S. J., associate editor of America, died at Mount Carmel, Conn., at the age of 72. Mr. La Fargo's mother was the granddaughter of Commodore Perry. Mr. La Farge’s mosaic at Trinity College chapel, Washinlgton, is considered one of his best works. THE VATICAN and the Italian gov ernment have reached an agreement whereby the arrangements between them in 1931 for the conducting of Catholic Action are to be continued in full force. The Holy Father contin ues to express his disapproval of the racial theories voiced in Italy by semi official and unofficial sources. . .THE JEWS of the Union of Amer ican Hebrew Congregations plan the establishment of committees on public information about Jews and Judaism through its 294 congregations in the United States and Canada.. Lee M. Friedman of Boston is chairman of the national committee.. Local committees will distribute the literature, contact the press and use other publicity media in cooperation with the national committee. Named to Hierarchy The Rev. Matthew Francis Brady, pastor of St. Rita’s Church, Ham den, Conn., who has been ap pointed Bishop of Burlington, Vt., to fill the See made vacant by the death of Bishop Joseph J. Rice last April. Bishop-elect Brady was ordained in 1916 and served as a World War chaplain overseas. K. QF G, CONVENTION HELD IN CINCINNATI Catholic Action Theme of Annual Meeting of Supreme Council of Order (By N. C. W. C. News Service CINCINNATI—Warned that “a Catholic cannot take a neutral posi tion regarding any of the evils of our day,” the Knights of Columbus as sembled here for the fifty-sixth an nual Supreme Council Convention were called upon to seek commissions in Catholic Action from the Bishops of the United States “and from the Bishop of Bishops—the Supreme Pon tiff.” The call came from the Most Rev. John T. McNicholas, O. P., Archbishop of Cincinnati, preaching at the Pon tifical Mass in St. Peter’s Cathedral with which the convention was for mally opened. The convention, which came to a close yesterday, re-elected the follow ing as Supreme Directors of the Knights of Columbus for three-year terms: Leo F. Craig, of Sioux Falls, S. Dak.; James H. Devaney, of Cascade, la.; Edward P. Ryan, of Spokane, Wash,; Michael J. Howlett, of Chi cago, and John F. Martin, of Okla homa City, Okla. Martin H. Carmody, Supreme Knight of the K. of C., received the following cablegram from His Emi nence Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, Papal Secretary of State: “The Holy Father most willingly participates in the fifty-sixth annual convention of the Knights of Colum bus, confirms his former august mes sage of praise and encouragement to the organization for its endeavors and successes in various Catholic activities, (Continued on Page 10) Boy Scout National Officers Avoid World Youth Congress NEW YORK, N. Y.—In a letter to Victor F. Ridder, nationally known as a Catholic lay leader and member of the national executive committee of the Boy Scouts of America, James E. West, chief executive of the Scouts, states that after extended study of the question, augmented by confer ences with its officials, the Boy Scouts of America declined to participate in the “World Youth Congress” at Vas- sar. In a letter to the officials of the Congress Mr. West, writing in the name of the Boy Scouts, stated that they could not participate as request ed “because of the fact that it has ap peared to us that the American Youth Congress which has assumed responsi bility of host to the World Youth Con gress is not genuinely representative of the youth of America, aiid has to a very considerable extent been domin ated by the Communistic groups in America.” In a letter to President McCracken of Vassar College, .where the congress is being held, Mr. West further states: “The general impression which most of us have gotten here is in support of the claims made in American Mer cury Magazine and elsewhere that the Communistic Party very definitely is doing everything in its power to make use of the American Youth Congress in order to strengthen its foothold here in America. Our sincere hope is that this element will not handicap or de stroy the values that might come out of the World Youth Congress, prop erly organized or conducted. Our ex perience has been such as to make us believe that the Communistic group are alert and expert in- the technique of capitalizing every opportunity for advancing the cause of communism here in America.” Committee of Congress Told Communists Recruited Army for Leftist Spain in the V. S. POOR AND INCURABLE VICTIMS OF CANCER WILL BE ASSISTED 1,500 to 1,700 American Youths Virtually Held Pris oners by Reds There, Es caped Soldier Says (By N. C. W. C. News Service) WASHINGTON. — Positive testimo ny that Communists have controlled the sending of American youths to fight with the Leftist forces in Spain, was given here to the House Special Committee investigating Un-Ameri can Activities . The committee was told that be tween 1,500 and 1,700 American boys are being held “virtual prisoners” in the so-called Loyalist armies in Spain, and that virtually everyone of them would return to the United States if he could manage to be re leased. A member of the committee itself named eight prominent Government officials—six men and two women— as members of the American League for Peace and Democracy, which, one witness testified to the investigating group, is a Communist-dominated or ganization. These and other disclosures brought the promise that the committee will investigate further the so-called “front organizations”, through which Communists employ others not actu ally affiliated with the Communist Party to advance the tenets and plans of Communism. It was promised still further that efforts are to be put forward to iden tify and deport the hundreds, and possibly thousands, of aliens, who, while illegally in the United States, are working to further the cases of Communism and Nazism here. Abraham Sobel, of Boston, who fought for the Leftists in Spain, told the committee that the Roxbury Workers’ Club and the American League Against War and Fascism, of which he was a member, solicited his enlistment with the so-called Loyal ist forces. In answer to a direct question, So bel also said that members of the Communist Party are contributing factors in the American League for Peace and Democracy and its prede cessor, the Americai League Against War -and Fascism. Representative Noah M. Mason, of Illinois, a member of the Dies Com mittee, declared that “evidence on file with this committee contains proof—acceptable in any court—that the League (American League for Peace and Democracy) was organiz ed by leading Communists in the first place, is controlled by known leading Communists today . . . Denial that it’s a front for the Communist Party can’t do away with the testimony that has been presented here.” Representative Martin Dies, of Tex as. chairman of the committee, read a (Continued on Page 10) REV. HXFLEUREN IS DEAD IN EL PASO Beloved Jesuit Father Served in Georgia, Florida (Special to The Bulletin) GRAND COTEAU. La. The Rev. Henry Fleuren, S. J., a member of the Society of Jesus for forty-six years, died late in July in El Paso, Texas, where he was assistant pastor of St. Joseph’s Church. Father Fleuren was born in Orthen, Holland, 65 years ago, and came to the United States in 1892, joining the Society of Jesus at St. Stanislaus Col lege, Macon, where he made his noviti ate. He made his studies in theology at Woodstock College, Maryland, and was ordained by Cardinal Gibbons in 1906. A member of the original faculty of Loyola University, New Orleans, Father Fleuren taught also at the Im maculate Conception College and Jes uit High School, New Orleans, Tampa College, Sacred Heart College, Au gusta, Ga., St. Ignatius’ College, San Francisco, and St. Mary’s University, Galveston. During the World War Father Fleuran was a Knights of Co lumbus chaplain. Father Fleuren was one of the most widely known and beloved of the Jesuit Fathers in the South. The funeral was held from St. Jo seph’s Church. El Paso, with interment in the Jesuit Cemetery at St. Charles’ College here. «Host to Congress The Most Rev. Maurice F. Mc- Auliffe, Bishop of Hartford, who will be host to the Fourth Na tional Catechetical Congress of the Confraternity of Christian Doc trine, to be held at Hartford, Conn., October 1 to 4. Thirty- four members of the Hierarchy have accepted invitations to be present. FR. WALSH, NOTED BENEDICTINE, DIES Catholic University Profes sor Was Confraternity of Christian Doctrine Na tional Director (By N. C. W. C. News Service WASHINGTON.—The Very Rev. Francis Augustine Walsh, O. S. B„ one of the best known priests in the Unit ed States, died at Providence Hospital here last evening. He was 54 years old. Father Walsh was known as a teach er, a writer, an editor, a speaker and an administrator. He was Assistant Professor of Philosophy and former Regent of the Seminary at the Catho lic University of America. He was the author of numerous works, chief ly on spiritual and philosophical topics. He was the Editor of New Scholas ticism. He was constantly being in vited to give addresses, and was a speaker in the “Catholic Hour” in 1933- He was Director of the National Cen ter of the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine at the headquarters of the (Continued on Page 10) Bishop O’Hara Announces Coining of Famed Order Founded by Mother Rose Hawthorne Lathrop (Special to The Bulletin) ATLANTA. Ga.—The Most Rev. Gerald P. O'Hara, D. D., Bishop of Savannah-Atlanta, announces the pur chase for the Servants for the Relief of Incurable Cancer, the order found ed by Mother Rose Hawthorne Lath rop, of the old Hebrew Orphans’ Home, to establish there a charity hospital for sufferers from cancer. The site occupies an entire block, 400 by 400 feet, and the purchase was negotiated by Robert R. Otis. The home was used for a number of years as an orphanage for Hebrew children, but in recent years the chil dren have been cared for in selective homes. The grounds are commodious and beautifully wooded. Mother Rose Huber, superior of the Sisters and the successor in that ca pacity of the late beloved Mother Rose Hawthorne Lathorp, the daugh ter of Nathaniel Hawthorne, illus trious American author, wished a location for the order in the South so that it might extend its work. At lanta appealed to her as the ideal site because of its size and central location, and the negotiations for a suitable site followed through Bishop O’Hara. It is the plan of the Sisters in all their hospitals to minister to those serving from incurable cancer and to minister only to those unable to pay'for such care; this merciful as sistance is extended to all, irrespec tive of creed. Mother Rose was moved with pity by the plight of the poor suffering from incurable cancer, a class of sufferers for which no provision had been made, and her founding of the order which now has hospitals from Massachusetts to Geor gia followed. The new hospital will care for about 150 patients, and work has already been started on renovating the build ing acquired for it. The building is of Moorish style of architecture, and there will be no substantial change in its architectural appearance. In side, hospital type elevators will be installed, a sprinkler system provided, and the best of modern hospital equipment incorporated into the in stitution’s facilities. There will be a main kitchen in the basement and a small one on each of the three floors. On the first floor there will be three wards and several private rooms, a lounge and reading room for the patients, a dining room for the Sis ters and a chapel with a capacity of 150. The men’s department will b- on this floor, and the women’s de partment on the second floor, with a lounge for the women patients and quarters for fifteen or more Sisters. On the third floo , which only covers part of the building, will be the com munity rooms for the Sisters. In ad dition to the boiler plant and kitchen in the basement, there v/ill be s*ore rooms. These improvements will leave one wing of the building untouched and not utilized; it can be remodeled and used later as the hospital grows. Author of Best Seller Gave Kansas Hospital to Sisters (By N.C.VV.C. News Service) HALSTEAD, Kans. — Selection of "The Horse and Buggy Doctor” by the Book-of-the-Month Club has served to recall that its author. Dr. Arthur E. Hertzler, a non-Catholic, gave his widely known hospital here to the Sis ters of St. Joseph of Wichita some six years ago. * Dr. Hertzler, Professor of Surgery in the University of Kansas medical school since 1909, established his first hospital here _jn 1902. He made it a rule never to charge a patient more than $4 a day for room and nursing; never to charge more than $150 for any operation; never to ask for a fee in ad vance, and never to ask a patient whe ther he could afford to pay. He ad hered to these resolutions and his hos pital grew. In 1932, when it was trans ferred to the Nuns, it had 200 patient beds, a nurses’ training school for nearly-a hundred students, and a rep utation that brought patients from dis tant places. Feeling that taxes were hampering his charities. Dr. Hertzler caused the following statement to be published in the Halstead Independent of March 3. 1932: “To My Friends: I have conveyed to the Sisters of St. Joseph the hospi tal and equipment, free of all debt, for the sum of one dollar. . . . The Sisters, being a charitable institution in name as well as in fact, will be able to carry on better than I. . . . The Sisters will carry on my policy of giving all we have to whosoever may come.” Dr. Hertzler has continued as chief of staff and operates the Agnes E. Hertzler Memorial Clinic, named in memory of his wife.
